For whatever reason the stock battery is cooked, it was on the charger overnight and didn't even take on enough juice to light the headlight. I ordered up a new battery and will have to wait for it to arrive before I get to fire it up! Whats another week after 3 months!

The Shorai LFX18A1 battery arrived, and it installs very easily. The batteries include foam stick on pads so you can make it the same size as stock.

I held my breath, turned the key which gave me the reassuring TPS initialize sound and then fingered the starter button. It jumped to life in about 3 crank rotations. It rattled for about 3 seconds until the oil got where it needed to be, and the result is what you see here!

I didn't blip the throttle because the 2618 alloy pistons need to be slowly warmed up due to their hypereutectic properties. I also need to upload the new Rexxer map and hopefully I can get out this weekend and give it a good dose of its 600km new top end break in. Then I can really get down to business and see what she'll do and get a dyno run in.

For anybody interested, I will put all the needed parts, cost and contact info in one post. I was thinking about this the other day. If I started with the pistons and rods in hand I could do the whole job in 2 weeks, which includes teardown, shipment of cylinders for bore and plate and rebuild.

Time for a beer, Jeff. Great job on the upgrade and even better documentation on the mod in this thread. I hope you'll go over to BMWSR.org and reference this feat. There a a number of international owners than post there that would like to read your successes and woes.

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For anybody interested, I will put all the needed parts, cost and contact info in one post. I was thinking about this the other day. If I started with the pistons and rods in hand I could do the whole job in 2 weeks, which includes teardown, shipment of cylinders for bore and plate and rebuild.

Way to go Bro...sounds like it's time to hang the shingle for "Shredder's Big Blox"...taking orders for the ultimate BMW experience